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> A woofer from AliExpress is not a speaker with amp you can use for University level audio work.

We're talking about coffee here...
No mention of battery life. They keep making stuff thin, and unupgradeable. What's the point of buying an apple device that is going to wear out in 5 years?
Feedback: Was looking around all the site to find a section who explains what is Webview and can't find it. Should be some explanation.

What is that? Like a hidden browser that comes with the different OSs?
Hardware is not always a loss leader, with Nintendo hardware (generally, Wii U was an exception) being the largest example. Estimates were about $250[1] for production for a $300 unit at launch if I remember right, so maybe $10 profit.

Selling on someone else's hardware means they take your 30% or so storefront fee. For example selling your studio's Elder Scrolls title on Steam or PlayStation nets you $42 instead of $60.

[1]https://xtech-nikkei-com.translate.goog/dm/atcl/column/15/36...
Yeah... They should have released the iPad Pro and the Macbook Pro with the M4 at the same time. I'm not interested in the M2 anymore. I really want a beefy Macbook Air, but I want it with a high quality processor.

Apple seemingly was recognizing that their userbase wanted more a few years back, and it feels like they're disorganized in this regard still.
The thing is that we don't the frequency about every char happens
An utter disgrace.
> Last I heard, carmakers are moving away from touchscreens.

Depends on the country and margins.

For example, Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese car manufacturers increasingly use touchscreens to minimize the amount of SKUs to manage and because touchscreen display manufacturing is commoditized in developing Asia.

The EU is pushing for regulation and limitations around touchscreen displays last month, but it was also around the same time the EU also announced anti-competitive action against Chinese automakers.

The US is a mixed bag around touchscreens. Some Chinese makes like a Volvo XC30 or a Polestar will be almost entirely touchscreen driven, and Tesla is also touchscreen driven for cost reasons, but other companies like your GMs or your Stellarises still have buttons, but are increasingly trying to move away.
good for content creation ideas
Not OP: But I've considered getting an iPad+Pencil to use as a digital whiteboard / tablet in meetings. My plan was to either AirPlay the screen to the Mac or use some app like Freeform that syncs sketches in real time and have the Mac app open.

I probably wanna jump quickly between e.g editor / terminal / website and the whiteboard, and sharing the iPad monitor directly by joining the call seems to heavy.
MacBooks even the air are too large and heavy imo. A 10-11 inch tablet running a real os would be ideal for travel imo.
To be fair every MacBook I’ve had has lasted 10 years minimum
The example they gave -- an employee who "secretly" went to California for a while -- seems to fit the definition of "transitory." From the horse's mouth, the California Franchise Tax Board web site:

> Who Are Residents and Nonresidents

> A resident is any individual who meets any of the following:

> • Present in California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose.

> • Domiciled in California, but outside California for a temporary or transitory purpose. See Section L, Meaning of Domicile.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2022/2022-1031-publication.pdf

If an employee moves permanently to another state or country then sure, the employer should know about that. But someone taking a beach break or driving into Canada with a laptop doesn't create any big problem for the employer. This seems like the "quiet quitting" panic, another reason for managers to surveil and control their employees.
The policies preventing housing being built are immensely popular with the voters who already live there, so it's very much the government representing (some of) the people.
> they understand how to use tools which are paramount to developer success

No, it means they know how to use tools to solve certain small programming tasks.
Actually, M4 is reportedly on a more cost-efficient TSMC N3E node, where Apple was apparently the only customer on the more expensive TSMC N3B node; I'd expect Apple to move away from M3 to M4 very quickly for all their products.

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2024/05/06/news-apple-m4-inc....
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol

Growing up in a sheltered middle-class home, it was my first awakening to 'the real world'
> Matlab & Fortran have been decimated by Python and C/C++ around 1990s and 2010s, respectively.

Nit: this failed to be respective; the years are the other way around
Your city will rather go bankrupt. Just take Detroit as a guide.
So... When does the government take action against Microsoft for lying about the Activision merger and how there wouldnt be layoffs?
Ha. That really highlights how absurd the toy of iPadOS is compared to the beasts that are the M-series chips.

It's like putting a Ferrari engine inside of a Little Tikes toy car. I really have no idea who the target market for this device is.
This is an extreme form of coffee hipsterism. “Cold brew, but steamed please”. Brother, this is starting to get ridiculous.
The iPad is the notable omission from the Self Service Repair thing they are doing. I suspect it's just classified as disposable/recyclable.

(yes this annoys me)
I feel like AAA gaming has just gotten too big, the time between releases is way too long compared to back in the 2000s and try to hard to big massive open world or movie quality cinematic experience. I feel similar about Sony.

Nintendo on the other hand seems have a good balance of putting out quality games of various ambition with a good frequency
Well, to be fair, a firefighter at the end of a ladder can't evacuate someone through a fiber optic run.
> The Most Powerful Neural Engine Ever

While it is true that the claimed performance for M4 is better than for the current Intel Meteor Lake and AMD Hawk Point, it is also significantly lower (e.g. around half) than the AI performance claimed for the laptop CPU+GPU+NPU models that both Intel and AMD will introduce in the second half of this year (Arrow Lake and Strix Point).
Windows are not just an aesthetic thing.

In the US windows are also a required means of egress from a bedroom in case of fire. Technically the requirement is two means of egress of any type, but in effect this means the door and the window, where someone can be rescued by a fire truck, escape onto a different path, etc.
> Objects in motion continue in motion. So without energy being created or destroyed, why would you expect a contraction instead of continuing expansion?

I think space is a little like an insanely low-friction version of water, i.e. a quantum foam [1] (or similar fluctuations caused by the structure of space-time). It may not be perceivable but it would mean that space could exert a drag in the same way water does. You could imagine it pulling out energy from a photon and red-shifting it, until eventually it just absorbed it. If that was true, it would also add a distance-based offset for all observations of the Universe and affects things like the Hubble constant.

That would be just one way in which a contraction may occur - nothing exciting, just all the things travelling further away worn down by the substance they travel in. Then there would be several ways to bring it all back together into a big bang.

> Real closed loop systems are purely theoretical and the only one we know of is the Universe, so your statements about them are circular.

We have simulated closed-loop systems of many kinds, I think we can make educated guesses about how they may behave. As long as all state transitions undergo a reversible function, it should eventually return to its original state?

> One big unidirectional aspect of the universe is entropy - it’s a non-reversible state.

I don't think that's entirely true. Going by the big bang, the Universe started as one large point in space-time that exploded. Not long after things started to clump together into larger and larger particles/objects, there is currently nothing to make me believe that it will not create larger and larger clumps of matter, i.e. super massive black holes.

> Going to a previous state requires more energy than what you started with.

Then where did that energy go?

Anyway, I understand this is highly theoretical and I'm not convincing anybody here, but it is nice to share some ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#:~:text=Hawk....
“Old Brew” can be more valuable. You must check the vintage and terrioir.
Who's accessing your S3 buckets?
it cool, but comparing it to V0, i'd say it would be more easy to use if it were like that.
Hours of gen'd classical synth music (no AI)
Like when Paris Hilton walked out of jail after 45 minutes?
Shades of that Twitter executive who shared a picture of herself in a sleeping bag at the office, presumably doing "hardcore engineering". She later got fired regardless.
Nothing's stopping Blender from releasing an iPadOS version.
> IME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims

That's just laughable, sorry. No one is particularly honest in marketing copy, but Apple is for sure one of the worst, historically. Even more so when you go back to the PPC days. I still remember Jobs on stage talking about how the G4 was the fasted CPU in the world when I knew damn well that it was half the speed of the P3 on my desk.
> In such cases, the serialized binary are mostly in 200~1000 bytes. Not big enough for zstd to work

You're not referring to the same dictionary that I am. Look at --train in [1].

If you have a training corpus of representative data, you can generate a dictionary that you preshare on both sides which will perform much better for very small binaries (including 200-1k bytes). It's the same kind of technique but zstd's mechanism is absolutely general whereas purpose-built non-entropy based dictionaries are more limited & less likely to outperform.

If you want maximum flexibility (i.e. you don't know the universe of representative messages ahead of time or you want maximum compression performance), you can gather this corpus transparently as messages are generated & then generate a dictionary & attach it as sideband metadata to a message. You'll probably need to defer the decoding if it references a dictionary not yet received (i.e. send delivers messages out-of-order from generation). There are other techniques you can apply, but the general rule is that your custom encoding scheme is unlikely to outperform zstd + a representative training corpus. If it does, you'd need to actually show this rather than try to argue from first principles.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md
> If these things will ever get MacOS support

The Macbook line will get iPadOS support long before they allow MacOS on this line. Full steam ahead towards the walled garden.
Does anyone game on iPad? I see the sell controllers, but what am I supposed to do with all these GPUs?
Linux doesn’t mitigate it out of the box, but you can do this: https://www.wireguard.com/netns/#the-new-namespace-solution
Until I see actual numbers on Gamepass I won’t believe that it was a failure. It isn’t a direct comparison of “gamers are spending $10 instead of $70”. People who would not buy a game that just came out will willingly pay for Gamepass every month. Gamepass also exists on PC, so Xbox is dipping into a user base which otherwise might not buy many products from them.
Yes they almost definitely make less money from some people, but they might make that back and more from people who otherwise would not be buying their games. It’s hard to use your intuition here without some numbers
I think the source of your sort of unconscious discomfort is because corporate speak is not about truth or justice or any moral/ethical system, it's about reputation-management of the firm and profit. They usually won't make direct provable lies, but will leave out any information that does not boost their reputation even if it's relevant or contradicts their messaging. But importantly, they are appealing to a sense of moral virtue when they brag about environmental responsibility or privacy, even if they aren't taking a lens of truth and justice to their analysis and messaging, but a biased one that ultimately favors profit.

This dissonance in tone vs real motive is really painful to people who care about nuance and truth and moral good, because it means they muddy the waters of what is right and wrong and confuse us.
Ask HN: What is the state of GPT use in non-tech industries?
Indeed, modern public corporations are already functionally equivalent to AGIs in many ways, with a legal obligation to maximize profit by any means.

Not sure why this is not a more common point in AI doomsaying discussions.
Yeah jackasses are always gonna jackass. There's still a public interest in making devices upgradable for the purpose of minimizing e-waste.

I'd just love to buy a device with a moderate amount of unupgreadable SSD and an SD slot so that I can put a more memory in it later so the device can last longer.
Not from Apple. They run it through a software that "tests" the battery and always returns "good" and tell you they can't do anything for you.
1Tb model = €2750.

For iPad, not an MBP laptop.
Dave the diver is definitely not an "AA" game. It's so indie looking it was nominated for multiple indie awards (even if it's not an actual indie game). DRG is not AA either, according to its homepage GhostShip has 32 people 4 years after launching it. Same for Spiritfairer, it was built by a team of 16.
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From the article:

> The parts costs for the Max series ranged between $400 and $450 during the 2018 to 2021 period

> The estimated production cost of the model, calculated by adding up the cots of all parts used, stood at $558

Good catch though, I confused the iPhone 14 release date with 2021.

Editing.
Everything old is new again. This reminds me of ZSCII, which was how Infocom games encoded string data to fit ~100kb of text data into a Commodore 64, packing 3 characters into every 2 bytes.

--first byte------- --second byte---
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
bit --first-- --second--- --third--

The 5-bit character encoding was one of three character sets:

Z-char 6789abcdef0123456789abcdef
current --------------------------
A0 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
A1 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
A2 ^0123456789.,!?_#'"/\-:()
--------------------------

Z-char 0 was space in all character sets, z-char 1 was newline, z-chars 2 and 3 switched to one of the other character sets depending on which one you were already in for the next character only, and z-chars 4 and 5 switched permanently, the "shift-lock".

https://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/sect0...
Browsers need to start using default search engine other than Google to try to get people away from Google. And remove Google search from list of searches in settings. I know it’s futile, especially because most people use chrome. But we’ve got to do something to spread the word that Google is not the only search engine out there.
Plenty of people on HN thought that M1 GPU is as powerful as 3090 GPU, so I think the message worked very well for Apple.

They really love those kind of comparisons - e.g. they also compared M1s against really old Intel CPUs to make the numbers look better, knowing that news headlines won't care for details.
My brother-in-law is a veterinarian who primarily practices in Virginia but is licensed to practice in Colorado, Wyoming and California, too. He spent the first 10 years or so of his career as an emergency vet, first with full-time employment at a clinic and then increasingly picking up relief shifts at a set of clinics around the region (and occasionally even out of state).

Here are a few facts:

* Relief vets can charge $250-325/hr for a 12hr shift, plus a percentage of their production (= revenue share), often 20-25%. This means a single relief shift can net an experienced vet upwards of $3000.
* Frequently, clinics will pay travel expenses for relief vets if they can't find any local.
* Just like the AMA, the VMA restricts the number of new vets in the pipeline, so there's a scarcity of skilled labor.
* It used to be that vets got paid about the same as independent family practitioners -- in the $150-200k/yr range
* The rise of veterinary insurance is what is primarily responsible for the dramatically increased charge rates in veterinary medicine. Since an insurer will pay, vets can charge. This has had the effect of turning what was a $2000 surgery into a $8000 surgery, or a $75 vaccination into a $250 vaccination.
* Private Equity and corporatization (e.g. Banfield, Petco) have been ruining things for independent vets and also pet owners. Yes, you sometimes get the convenience efficiencies of a corporate service with plug & play employees, but everything else goes downhill. The effects mirror what the human healthcare industry has been experiencing.
* Startup costs for a new clinic can be as low as about $400k once you have the office lease. Lots of the equipment is leased to clinics so the capital expense to get running is pretty low and the costs are easy to amortize over time through operational cashflow.
* Lots of vets -- my brother-in-law included -- have said "to hell with this" and started concierge services. It's pretty easy to make a good living with VERY low stress if you only have 40-50 subscribing clients, and the hassle and headache is lightyears lower than working for a clinic (especially a corporate clinic).
* Board certified vets get paid the same as people doctors, especially in specialities (ophthalmology, dermatology, neurology, etc). $300-600k/yr depending on region, and that's just the base salary.
* A well-run veterinary clinic in a mid-sized city that has 2-3 vets on duty at any given time can easily gross >$100k in a weekend. It's not unusual for my bro-in-law to drive $25k production during a single relief shift, and that's completely above board, high quality medical work using established price lists -- not any kind of gouging. The ones making bank are the clinic owners, and until very recently (convenient carve out to appease private equity -- boo!) there was a requirement (just like dental offices) that clinic had to be owned by DVMs. Now that this isn't true, you've seen massive buyouts and franchise growth driven by both corporate interests and PE. We as consumers are suffering for it.
The market is what determines how it is viewed, not the homeowner.

When auto market hit supply constraints during the pandemic, the used car market got bought up and people started investing in cars to flip. There is no escaping "viewed as an investment" in a supply constrained market.
She was originally sentenced to "over 11 years" in November of 2022, meaning that after 17 months, she has come 43 months closer to release. At this rate of reduction, she will likely be back on the streets and preying on Wall Street by the summer of 2027.
Am I reading this right that I can't use my Apple Pencil 2 on a new iPad Air or Pro? I have to buy the new pencil? What?
Chilling warm brewed coffee is definitely faking it. And I presume all places selling "cold brew" is faking it so this guy is losing money by not showing off doing real cold brew with his apparatus.
That would be fine if the 8GB model was also priced for casual and light productivity use cases. But alas, this is Apple we're talking about.
When software engineers start a business, it's easy for them to hyperfixate on technical decisions because those are the types of problems they understand well enough to optimize.
In Canada a fully loaded iPad Pro with nanotexture screen, 2TB, keyboard, pencil pro and apple care + tax is $5035.28

Wild to think that they sell 10,000s if not 100,000s of these configurations
You're probably correct about it being hard to make a decent iOS app in Swift Playgrounds, but it's definitely not a toy

I use it for work several times per week. I often want to test out some Swift API, or build something in SwiftUI, and for some reason it's way faster to tap it out on my iPad in Swift Playgrounds than to create a new project or playground in Xcode on my Mac — even when I'm sitting directly in front of my Mac

The iPad just doesn't have the clutter of windows and communication open like my mac does that makes it hard to focus on resolving one particular idea

I have so many playground files on my iPad, a quick glance at my project list: interactive gesture-driven animations, testing out time and date logic, rendering perceptual gradients, checking baseline alignment in SF Symbols, messing with NSFilePresenter, mocking out a UI design, animated text transitions, etc
Jobs in bay area with most tech companies with 5-10 years of experience at mid level gives you this. With zirp gone this may no longer be true but was the case 2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, what are you doing with a great concurrency story in a company you start in 2024?
https://bible.usccb.org/bible
I think vittualization would be enough. Especially if it works well with an external monitor.
Fascinating, thanks !

So Pol.is sounds to be the opposite of bubbles-forming social media (especially Twitter where it's hard to see past the previous/next post ?), on the contrary, it encourages consensus-building thanks to deliberately showing what people agree about ?
-std=gnu98 works. ie explicitly telling it your code is not modern C.
All else equal, targeting and supporting one thing is easier than two, so limiting your target to (wayland, aarch64) makes sense just in terms of resource allocation.

Secondarily, I would wonder if older/32-bit devices might not end up being a little too resource-constrained to be either a bad customer experience (driving more support load), and/or making development too costly.
They probably saw the debacle that was Windows 8 and thought merging a desktop and touch OS is a decade-long gradual task, if that is even the final intention.

Unlike MS that went with the Big Bang in your face approach that was oh-so successful.
The problem here is zoning laws, in most places in the US you can't build businesses right next to residential. We would have to change our zoning laws and do something similar to a 5 by 1 (bottom floor is retail, top floors are residential)
They could but then you open the mobile app or another computer and the key just isn't there. They could generate one subkey for each device but then you risk user emails being impossible to decrypt if they ever lose that device. Hell I'm a programmer and I somehow managed to get my own master key deleted because I ran smack into some gpg bug which I then reported and sent a patch for. If I can't do this without deleting my keys and being forced to revoke them from keyservers immediately after publishing, what hope do end users have?

The most secure solution is to generate keys on an OpenPGP smartcard like an NFC enabled YubiKey and use that key everywhere. Even that's incompatible with maximum reliability: YubiKeys can and will eventually fail and when they do your keys are gone. So you can't generate the encryption subkey on the smartcard, you need to generate it on a secure device, back it up to paper just like the master key, and then copy it to the smartcard. Otherwise you risk being unable to decrypt data later.

It's an incredibly hard problem and it's full of tradeoffs. I can at least respect their attempt to solve the problem.